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Virtual College and Arabian Child deliver innovative safeguarding training in Middle East

schedule 6 months, 3 weeks ago by Ben Piper in Virtual College

Virtual College is to work in partnership with Arabian Child to deliver innovative online child safeguarding training in the Middle East.

The partnership will help support a new initiative in the United Arab Emirates making child protection training mandatory for individuals who work with children. UAE’s new child protection law applies to all children up to the age of 18 and will mean teachers will be on the front line in the crackdown on child abuse.

Arabian Child is recognised as the pioneer in the early childhood education sector in the UAE. Since its inception, Arabian Child has been working to improve the quality of early childhood education by training and supporting early childhood professionals, policy makers and other professionals.

Virtual College is an expert in online training and won the prestigious ‘learning technologies supplier of the year’ 2016/17. The UK's number one provider of online safeguarding solutions, it first started developing online safeguarding learning resources in 2006 to provide a cost effective route to accelerate education and training around awareness of child abuse.

It has gone on to deliver safeguarding and child protection training to more than one million people and works closely with over 60 Local Safeguarding Children Boards in the UK, the statutory agencies responsible for child protection at the local level and provides e-learning courses to individuals, charities, schools, hospitals, private businesses, the police and local government.

Virtual College has developed over 40 safeguarding and child protection courses that range from ‘Awareness of Child Abuse and Neglect’ to ‘Children’s and Young People’s Development’.

Mrs Samia Kazi, CEO of Arabian Child, commented:”We are pleased to be able to tap into the learning technology and child protection expertise Virtual College has developed over a long period.

“This innovative solution will help us deliver effective, economical training rapidly to a large group of learners.”

Arabian Child serves all countries in the Middle East - KSA, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait - supporting quality improvement of early childhood by integrating the international best practices and programs with the local culture and heritage.

Hannah Bridle, Director at Virtual College, commented: “There is real synergy in our partnership with Arabian Child and we look forward to using our complementary skills and experience to deliver effective online child safeguarding training in the UAE.”

Gold and silver award winners at the Learning Technologies Awards 2017 - including gold for excellence in the design of learning content.

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